How Much Is $2.3 Trillion? More Than Even Obama Could Imagine
The CARES Act plunges the nation into a crash course on experimental economics.—and we're the lab rats.
The CARES Act plunges the nation into a crash course on experimental economics.—and we're the lab rats.
His brutal response to the protests against his anti-Muslim initiative reveal him as a Hindu nationalist, not a reformer.
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Working through the lows and highs of the House impeachment inquiry on the Reason Roundtable podcast
The Trump administration's justification for rescinding DACA relies heavily on the claim that the program is illegal. But it's not.
"This idea of purity and you're never compromised, and you're always politically 'woke,' and all that stuff, you should get over that quickly."
Barack Obama's recent endorsement of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is an example of why not all foreign efforts to influence elections are wrong.
Graham criticism of Trump's Syria policy says a lot more about the senator's appetite for endless war than the failures of an imagined non-interventionist foreign policy.
The impeachment process will be nasty, brutish, and long. It also won't cure the problem of expansive government.
For both good and ill, the Democratic field has moved so far to the left that 2012 Obama would have a hard time fitting in.
School lunches are unlikely to improve, whatever the lawsuit’s outcome.
For many of the president's biggest supporters, pushing back against "Trump Derangement Syndrome" is their raison d'être.
ProPublica’s Dara Lind on how the president’s workplace raids affect consumers, employers, and immigrants.
ProPublica’s Dara Lind on how the president’s workplace raids affect consumers, employers, and immigrants.
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Is referring to someone as an "Easter worshipper" really an attempt to minimize their Christian identity?
Donald Trump's rhetoric is breathtakingly authoritarian, but so far he's done less than his predecessors to expand executive power.
It's too early to make predictions based on public opinion surveys.
"This isn't a partisan issue," the Utah senator says. "This is a constitutional issue."
Like Hillary Clinton, the senator seems to think that Libya is a foreign policy success story.
We shouldn't have been there (or Iraq) in the first place.
Political finger-wags at the boardroom is a good sign that the lowly taxpayer is about to take it in the shorts.
Another device was reportedly sent to the office of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Critiquing an ex-president's warnings about anti-media rhetoric, non-voting, and unelected bureaucrats
While president, Obama was a single-payer critic. Out of office, he thinks it's the wave of the future.
You can't make the world a better place, he says, if you silence "those who aren't like you because they are white or they are male."
People who supported Trump's policy justified it by falsely claiming that today's critics never cared about Obama's detention facilities.
The president's policy of separating families at the border is wrong, but he's enabled by a lack of legislative action dating back decades.
But did you know that Obama's ICE arrested students at bus stops? Our immigration policy is a bipartisan nightmare.
If your "signature achievements" are done by executive power alone, they might as well be written in pencil.
Why it's getting harder to tell "fake news" from real news
Cambridge Analytica and the Trump campaign copied tactics from the Obama campaign's playbook. Should that change how we view the supposed Facebook scandal?
Border Patrol guards average just two illegal-immigrant apprehensions per month; they don't need reinforcements.
"We didn't have a scandal that embarrassed us," said the former president. "I know that seems like a low bar."
Partisan politics is awful.
The prison camp on the island of Cuba will remain open indefinitely.
His legacy will be grim.
Why don't "we" build anything anymore? Because corrupt unions and politicians recognize a guaranteed payday when they see it
Fiscal hawks, from their perch in the wilderness, predict we may again see 13-digit deficits as soon as next year
The feds still own the land.
A big defeat for anti-pipeline activists.
This week's show covers the John Kelly phone flap, former presidents against Trump, and why Republicans are only pretending to be worried about the budget.
Trying to minimize those divisions isn't very democratic.